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Nick Bradshaw

Formerly a film editor at both Time Out London and the late plan b magazine, he has also written for the Guardian online, the Independent, the Telegraph, the Times, Sunday Times, LA Weekly, the Village Voice and Vertigo, and is co-author of The DVD Stack (Canongate, 2006/07). His interests span documentary, animation, shorts, Golden Age Hollywood comedies and various kinds of experimental movies.

He is a sometime documentary filmmaker, with a MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts, and an unfinished essay documentary about the derelict movie theatres of Broadway, Los Angeles, at the back of his mind. He tweets @nickkinocritic, and can be contacted at nick.bradshaw [at] bfi.org.uk.

Legendary for the formal rigour and patience of his landscape films, and for his devotion to 16mm, the American filmmaker and teacher has lately embraced digital technology. He talks about manipulation, reality, liberty, and the pleasures of watching paint dry with Nick Bradshaw.

Our new issue looks back at the year in cinema with the help of over one hundred international critics, curators and academics. As a preview, here’s our voters’ top ten, plus in-house selections and highlights.

Andrew Tracy explores the characteristics that have come to define this most elastic of forms, while eight more contributors highlight a dozen influential milestone essay films, from Jean Vigo to Chris Marker.